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Originally posted by PrimeTime:
Now I understand first hand what it is to edit every UBB file (.pl and .cgi) manually but what I was thinking is rather different. What if the "UBB Template Themes" centered around the $TBT/$TBB tags and were controlled via CP? This template set will allow any user to insert different themes without doing much work. All they need to do is install the "Template Theme" pack which is universal to all theme applications.
Sure, that works, but modifying just the TBB and TBT is going to have different results in every forum, and the effects would not be so great. The best thing you could do with the TBB and TBT alone would have a graphic wrap around of the table. Thats it... template mods are so much more than just a different graphic around the table, there needs to be a bigger difference. You can't add gradients on category bars or title bars with just TBT and TBB... I don't think it would be worth while to do that way. I've been tinkering with threads templates last week, and if you havent seen how that system works, you haven't seen anything. Every template file edited in the CP, very easily, and very much CSS based. Thats the problem with template modding with classic, the base files are not CSS... it makes it much more time consuming to go through each file and adding a gradient to every title bar opposed to just making a class for it in a matter of minutes. Though I doubt CP/CSS based templates will happen for classic, it would really help to make more template packs.
